Tag Archives: Captain Beefheart
Beefheart Speaks
Nearly every Sunday evening I like to get my calendar and my to do list for the week together. These chores usually also include getting a blog post together for Monday morning. While I was getting my act together and making sure my ducks were in a row for another productive week I checked-in on [...]
Posted in Counter Culture, Music
Tagged 1969, Abbie Hoffman, Aunt Jemima, Captain Beefheart, July 20, Meatball Fulton, moon landing, Paul Bowles, radio, Thomas Lopez
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Tom Waits’s Big Time at 25
Tom Waits released his groundbreaking concert video Big Time 25 years ago. Not only did Big expand the contemporaneous notion of a short, promotional music video into a feature-length work of art, it also served as a moving picture showcase for the artist’s audacious mid-career trilogy: Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Frank’s Wild Years. Of course, [...]
